Senior Platform Engineer: AI Tools & Distributed Systems

Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc.

Missouri

On-site

USD 160,000 - 185,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

LRS Consulting is seeking a Software Engineer to design and build platform infrastructure, developer tools, and distributed systems in a senior-capacity role. You will collaborate across teams to implement safety, observability, and scalable architecture for AI-driven workflows.

This position emphasizes TypeScript, AWS, SDK development, and strong leadership to align engineering standards across the organization.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with platform infrastructure, developer tools, SDKs, or distributed systems.
  • Production experience with LLM or AI systems and familiarity with token limits, outages, and model updates.
  • Strong TypeScript skills and API design experience.
  • Knowledge of AI safety, PII handling, auditing, and responsible use practices.
  • Experience with event-driven systems and asynchronous processing.
  • Observability for distributed systems (metrics, tracing, alerts).
  • Strong communication and technical writing skills.
  • Proven technical leadership experience.
  • Experience with AWS.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build core platform components including provider abstractions, structured output validation, streaming systems, and token management.
  • Own safety and compliance systems such as guardrails, PII detection and redaction, audit logging, and privacy observability.
  • Build evaluation tooling for LLM output quality, including datasets, scoring methods, CI integration, and regression detection.
  • Develop provider adapters and SDK architecture that shield teams from frequent LLM provider and SDK changes.
  • Build and maintain prompt lifecycle tools including versioning, reviews, and deployment workflows.
  • Design infrastructure for long running asynchronous agents using AWS services.
  • Work closely with internal teams to understand needs, support onboarding, and provide technical guidance.
  • Influence architecture and engineering standards across the organization.
  • Create documentation and reference implementations to help teams adopt the platform.
  • Promote strong engineering practices including testing, type safety, and observability.

Skills

8+ years exp
LLM/AI
TypeScript
APIs design
AWS
Observability
Leadership
PII handling
Communication

Tools

NestJS
Prisma
SDK design
CI/CD

Job description

LRS Consulting is seeking a Software Engineer to design and build platform infrastructure, developer tools, and distributed systems in a senior-capacity role. You will collaborate across teams to implement safety, observability, and scalable architecture for AI-driven workflows.

This position emphasizes TypeScript, AWS, SDK development, and strong leadership to align engineering standards across the organization.

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